Overclocking Mega Thread

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Overclocking was released today so going to go ahead and start this up.

Any discussion about overclocking in PCBS can go in here.

[Dustbag]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

Originally posted by Ipponurpillow:

Just broken, you can't even get a slight overlock without a BOSD error. Not worth the time or effort.

Yep that too, and 1950X will only OC +0.25x and requires a lot of tuning to get that.

It's completely pointless right now. May as well as not even included overclocking at all when stock threadripper exceeds a high clocked and tuned 8700K system by thousands of points without even doing anything.

Not true! Look at one of my messages above. If you get lucky at binning (and you leave your GPU at stock) you can get it as high as I did. I got 4.335GHz @1.7V

[Dustbag]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

Originally posted by Ipponurpillow:

I was able to achieve a 5Ghz overclock on the i7 8700k
Base Clock - 103Mhz
Ratio - x49
Voltage - 1.8

Ram Corsair Dom 16Gb @ 3200Mhz
The computer undervoltes this for some reason
When I did overclock the ram I went to 4029Mhz @ 1.80 Volts

I used the Gigabyte GTX 1080Ti xtreme edition clock at 1900Mhz by default.
I clock them comfortably I still need to playaround some more with them.
Core Voltage - +9%
Core Clock - +75
Mem Clock - +151Mhz

If you have any questions please let me know.

This is a Post update.

Both the GPU's are stable
Core Voltage - +19%
Core Clock - +119Mhz
Mem Clock - +459Mhz

Post Update 3
Memory Clock - 3447
Memory Voltage - 1.75

It doesn't matter, sadly. I got a 8700K to 5250 mhz and DDR3 @ 4600 and it's still slower than a stock speed TR-1950x with stock ram in PCBS. This game is totally broken at the moment.

It was like this for a long time, before Overclocking was introduced.

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Originally posted by Dustbag:

It was like this for a long time, before Overclocking was introduced.

I was seriously hoping overclocking would balance this somewhat. Sadly still no. :(

[Auffenronsung]

So far I cannot overclock anything in this game, built a similar system to my own that I have OC's to 4.8Ghz and if I even touch the ratio, clock speed or voltage I get a BSOD in 3D Mark. This not very realistic.

Build is
MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon
Intel i7-7700K
2x 8GB Corsair 3200 Mhz
MSI Geforce GTX 1070Ti Titanium 8G
500GB Seagate
1100w Power supply
EVGA 120 Liquid Cooler
Coolermaster Case with 2 120 mm fans in the front

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Originally posted by Auffenronsung:

So far I cannot overclock anything in this game, built a similar system to my own that I have OC's to 4.8Ghz and if I even touch the ratio, clock speed or voltage I get a BSOD in 3D Mark. This not very realistic.

Build is
MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon
Intel i7-7700K
2x 8GB Corsair 3200 Mhz
MSI Geforce GTX 1070Ti Titanium 8G
500GB Seagate
1100w Power supply
EVGA 120 Liquid Cooler
Coolermaster Case with 2 120 mm fans in the front

Did you just immediately try 4.8 ghz in-game and expect it to work? start at stock speed and increase +1x multiplier, do all the tests, then if successful, then go increase +1x again, and repeat. There is "Binning" that is incorporated in to this game, and that means that in PCBS game, not all 7700K's will do 4.8 ghz, some will, some won't. You may need to swap out the CPU a few times until you get one that does.

[Auffenronsung]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

Originally posted by Auffenronsung:

So far I cannot overclock anything in this game, built a similar system to my own that I have OC's to 4.8Ghz and if I even touch the ratio, clock speed or voltage I get a BSOD in 3D Mark. This not very realistic.

Build is
MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon
Intel i7-7700K
2x 8GB Corsair 3200 Mhz
MSI Geforce GTX 1070Ti Titanium 8G
500GB Seagate
1100w Power supply
EVGA 120 Liquid Cooler
Coolermaster Case with 2 120 mm fans in the front

Did you just immediately try 4.8 ghz in-game and expect it to work? start at stock speed and increase +1x multiplier, do all the tests, then if successful, then go increase +1x again, and repeat. There is "Binning" that is incorporated in to this game, and that means that in PCBS game, not all 7700K's will do 4.8 ghz, some will, some won't. You may need to swap out the CPU a few times until you get one that does.

Yes I started out slow like I do IRL which is what is annoying me, I can't even move up any setting by 1 without it doing the BSOD. I know IRL chips have varying stages of OC they can go, been doing this for 25 years. Only IRL you can get some boost without a BSOD hence why I made the comment it is not realistic.

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Originally posted by Auffenronsung:

Yes I started out slow like I do IRL which is what is annoying me, I can't even move up any setting by 1 without it doing the BSOD. I know IRL chips have varying stages of OC they can go, been doing this for 25 years. Only IRL you can get some boost without a BSOD hence why I made the comment it is not realistic.

There has to be something you're missing somewhere, that's not usual behaviour for this game. Did you put all fans in every possible fan slot in the computer case and use high cfm fans? That matters in this game.

[Jacknm2]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

Originally posted by Auffenronsung:

Yes I started out slow like I do IRL which is what is annoying me, I can't even move up any setting by 1 without it doing the BSOD. I know IRL chips have varying stages of OC they can go, been doing this for 25 years. Only IRL you can get some boost without a BSOD hence why I made the comment it is not realistic.

There has to be something you're missing somewhere, that's not usual behaviour for this game. Did you put all fans in every possible fan slot in the computer case and use high cfm fans? That matters in this game.

Would have to concur with this, @Auffenronsung Check the CPU Temps before and after your Overclock. I read you've been doing this for years and you probably know what to look for, but I know what to look for specifically in the game as well. Intel CPU's top out at 100.4C (thermal throttle) and AMD tops out at 95.5C. This translates to around 55 - 60C idle temps so you can more or less see if your overclock will throttle or not, another note is I have only seen CPU clock interrupt BSOD when the Overclock has been too high or there is not enough voltage applied.

Other than that ensure you are using the highest CFM fans in the case as possible (unless you want a particular colour theme) and of course CPU cooler as well.

Also, please let us know or screenshot the BSOD you are getting, if its PRN_LST Bluescreen then thats a RAM issue for example.

Also... lol at the moment, there is absolutely no reason NOT to max out voltage on both CPU and RAM (unless you are using XMP). More voltage doesnt equal more heat at this time so until it does, have at it!

[Auffenronsung]

Originally posted by Jacknm2:

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

There has to be something you're missing somewhere, that's not usual behaviour for this game. Did you put all fans in every possible fan slot in the computer case and use high cfm fans? That matters in this game.

Would have to concur with this, @Auffenronsung Check the CPU Temps before and after your Overclock. I read you've been doing this for years and you probably know what to look for, but I know what to look for specifically in the game as well. Intel CPU's top out at 100.4C (thermal throttle) and AMD tops out at 95.5C. This translates to around 55 - 60C idle temps so you can more or less see if your overclock will throttle or not, another note is I have only seen CPU clock interrupt BSOD when the Overclock has been too high or there is not enough voltage applied.

Other than that ensure you are using the highest CFM fans in the case as possible (unless you want a particular colour theme) and of course CPU cooler as well.

Also, please let us know or screenshot the BSOD you are getting, if its PRN_LST Bluescreen then thats a RAM issue for example.

Also... lol at the moment, there is absolutely no reason NOT to max out voltage on both CPU and RAM (unless you are using XMP). More voltage doesnt equal more heat at this time so until it does, have at it!

Thank you for the information, I guess having a PSU that is only around the 650-750 watt range won't cut it in this game. Also good to know about the voltage not having adverse effects here. I have my real i7-7700k on a 750 watt Seasonic voltage at 1.4 and Multiplier at 48 running stable now for just over a year. Got the CPU a short time after they were released.

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Originally posted by noobiii:

is it "more cores more performance" because i apparently found a 2990WX with 32 cores while playing around with freebuild. what's the max oc you got for this cpu?

This thread is over a year old and nothing in this thread has anything to do with the game's current state today. I would suggest you both read the dates before replying (in the future) and consider starting a new thread. You would receive a much better response today with a new thread on the topic.

[D1Mé]

Originally posted by Dustbag:

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

It doesn't matter, sadly. I got a 8700K to 5250 mhz and DDR3 @ 4600 and it's still slower than a stock speed TR-1950x with stock ram in PCBS. This game is totally broken at the moment.

It was like this for a long time, before Overclocking was introduced.

oooo ig ot about 5.2ghz just about on the z390 platform on the i7 8700 with a single gtx 1080ti and 2 360 rads